Hi, This bug report is more like a minor enhancement in the process of file restoration during desktop-restore. @Juanma, Stefan: I am copying you guys to review this as this section of desktop.el has commits made by you the most. (PS: vc-region-history is awesome!) I use the *Messages* buffer at startup as a check that everything's good in my config. But as I use desktop save/restore in my workflow, I also get stuff like Note: file is write protected [2 times] Note: file is write protected [19 times] Note: file is write protected Note: file is write protected [3 times] Finally after much digging I had figured out that it is `desktop-restore-file-buffer` that is causing this. I understand that "file is write protected" and other warning are useful to the user when they are doing find-file interactively. But in this scenario, they just add clutter in the *Messages* buffer and provide no useful debug info. The patch that I am proposing in this report has been living in my emacs config since Nov 2014! and I have not seen a single bad side-effect of that. I hope this get merged into the master. ===== patch start From e5fdf14a387248c282abd94effe7f97be51340b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kaushal Modi Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 09:50:38 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] No find-file warnings during desktop-restore * lisp/desktop.el (desktop-restore-file-buffer): Do not print warnings when files are being opened during desktop restore. --- lisp/desktop.el | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lisp/desktop.el b/lisp/desktop.el index 1f460b7..df4ff55 100644 --- a/lisp/desktop.el +++ b/lisp/desktop.el @@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@ desktop-restore-file-buffer (or coding-system-for-read (cdr (assq 'buffer-file-coding-system desktop-buffer-locals)))) - (buf (find-file-noselect buffer-filename))) + (buf (find-file-noselect buffer-filename :nowarn))) (condition-case nil (switch-to-buffer buf) (error (pop-to-buffer buf))) -- 2.6.0.rc0.24.gec371ff ===== patch end In GNU Emacs 25.0.95.11 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.23) of 2016-06-29 Repository revision: 6192b6c3a4374b2cb6e02ca865e1899a04a7f7dc Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60900000 System Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.6 (Santiago) Thanks! -- Kaushal Modi